This regular exposure has resulted in a uniquely harsh and unpredictable environment. Madagascar is also the only place in the entire world where lemurs, a group of primates, are naturally found. It's ...

There are more than 20 species of mouse lemurs, and several have been identified only in recent years. This is a rarity in primate research, and illustrates just how much remains to be known about ...

Three lemur babies have joined the family at Antalya Natural Life Park in southern Türkiye, increasing the total lemur ...

During an attack on a pack of Iguanodon, an egg is separated and ends up with the possession of a group of lemurs. The lemurs care for this egg and the young creature born from it, which they call ...

Hibernating dwarf lemurs can stay in this cold, standby state for about a week before they have to briefly warm up, and ...

It all happens during hibernation, said lead author Marina Blanco of Duke. When winter sets in in the wild, dwarf lemurs ...

One group of animals was offered food if they were ... Overall, telomeres got longer in lemurs that experienced deeper torpor bouts. By contrast, lemurs that "woke up" to eat had telomere lengths ...